THIS Is Why Americans Are So Obsessed With Guns (It's not what you expect)

[WhoIsNumberNone]

[SouthernDem4ever]

1. Great explanation

Thanks for posting.

[walkingman]

2. Great post - the comments about the "cult of the constitution" and it's ties to

Christian Fundamentalism are so right on.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. So far, it's all advertising. What point does she ever make and

at what time into the video does she make it?

[walkingman]

4. The part that stood out to me started at about 19:15....

[2naSalit]

9. Ads end...

Around 04:05. The rest is worth watching. Just fast forward.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. The Constitution is broad and vague, and SCOTUS has become political, which is to say

a front group for financial interests. 2A has been misinterpreted, there is still no deference or explanation of the "well-regulated militia". America as a new country faced wild frontiers, hostile European powers who would barely lend it money and Royalty that hoped it would fail, and adverse trade on the high seas. No one said 'guns everywhere' would solve this, guns and militia in that day and age meant minutemen, Paul Revere style, to defend the country from foreign invasion and exploit indigenous populations. Yet you see where we are due to 240 years of SCOTUS fumblings.

[Warpy]

6. "A well regulated citizen militia" was outmoded by 1795

when they realized those citizens showing up for monthly drilling just used the occasion for bar hopping. West Point was established in 1902 and came in handy 10 years later.

Queen Elizabeth I talked about a citizen militia because she was cheap. She also had the Archbishop of Canterbury decree extra meatless days per week, the alternative being salted fish, because she didn't want to train sailors for her navy and realized if men could earn a living fishing to supply increased needs, she'd have a pool of trained sailors in case of war at no expense to her or the crown.

This video was great, pulling up the streak of dead letter fundamentalism that runs through this country. It's why states are still passing stupid antiabortion laws even when they've seen the horrific consequences of such laws in other states. This is their fundamentaiist view, one size fits all, god said it in this here book I aint bothered to read.

Yes, the idolatry around the murderous stupidity of the second amendment is part of that.

[world wide wally]

7. She gets it

[WhatTheFlux]

8. What is a Free State?

In the early 1700s in South Carolina, slave owners were required to participate in armed slave patrols to secure the Free State (i.e., those who weren't slaves.) In ratifying the Bill of Rights, the south made sure militias were the province of the state, and would not be regulated by the Feds, whom they feared would legislate the slave patrols out of existence, which would have weakened the institution of slavery.